java.lang.Object | ||||
↳ | java.awt.Component | |||
↳ | java.awt.Container | |||
↳ | javax.swing.JComponent | |||
↳ | javax.swing.AbstractButton |
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Defines common behaviors for buttons and menu items.
Buttons can be configured, and to some degree controlled, by
Action
s. Using an
Action
with a button has many benefits beyond directly
configuring a button. Refer to
Swing Components Supporting Action
for more
details, and you can find more information in How
to Use Actions, a section in The Java Tutorial.
For further information see How to Use Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons, a section in The Java Tutorial.
Warning:
Serialized objects of this class will not be compatible with
future Swing releases. The current serialization support is
appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running
the same version of Swing. As of 1.4, support for long term storage
of all JavaBeansTM
has been added to the java.beans
package.
Please see XMLEncoder
.
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AbstractButton.AccessibleAbstractButton | This class implements accessibility support for the
AbstractButton class. |
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AbstractButton.ButtonChangeListener | Extends ChangeListener to be serializable. |
Constants | |||||||||||
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String | BORDER_PAINTED_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to having the border drawn, or having it not drawn. | |||||||||
String | CONTENT_AREA_FILLED_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to having the button paint the content area. | |||||||||
String | DISABLED_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been disabled. | |||||||||
String | DISABLED_SELECTED_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been disabled and selected. | |||||||||
String | FOCUS_PAINTED_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to having the border highlighted when focused, or not. | |||||||||
String | HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's horizontal alignment. | |||||||||
String | HORIZONTAL_TEXT_POSITION_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's horizontal text position. | |||||||||
String | ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon that represents the button. | |||||||||
String | MARGIN_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's margins. | |||||||||
String | MNEMONIC_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the button's mnemonic. | |||||||||
String | MODEL_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button model. | |||||||||
String | PRESSED_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been pressed. | |||||||||
String | ROLLOVER_ENABLED_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change from rollover enabled to disabled or back to enabled. | |||||||||
String | ROLLOVER_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the cursor is over the button. | |||||||||
String | ROLLOVER_SELECTED_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the cursor is over the button and it has been selected. | |||||||||
String | SELECTED_ICON_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been selected. | |||||||||
String | TEXT_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's text. | |||||||||
String | VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's vertical alignment. | |||||||||
String | VERTICAL_TEXT_POSITION_CHANGED_PROPERTY | Identifies a change in the button's vertical text position. |
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actionListener | The button model's ActionListener . |
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changeEvent | Only one ChangeEvent is needed per button
instance since the
event's only state is the source property. |
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changeListener | The button model's changeListener . |
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itemListener | The button model's ItemListener . |
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model | The data model that determines the button's state. |
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Public Methods | |||||||||||
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Adds an
ActionListener to the button. | |||||||||||
Adds a
ChangeListener to the button. | |||||||||||
Adds an
ItemListener to the checkbox . | |||||||||||
Programmatically perform a "click".
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Programmatically perform a "click".
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Returns the currently set
Action for this
ActionEvent source, or null
if no Action is set. | |||||||||||
Returns the action command for this button.
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Returns an array of all the
ActionListener s added
to this AbstractButton with addActionListener(). | |||||||||||
Returns an array of all the
ChangeListener s added
to this AbstractButton with addChangeListener(). | |||||||||||
Returns the icon used by the button when it's disabled.
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Returns the icon used by the button when it's disabled and selected.
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Returns the character, as an index, that the look and feel should
provide decoration for as representing the mnemonic character.
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Returns the value of the
hideActionText property, which
determines whether the button displays text from the
Action . | |||||||||||
Returns the horizontal alignment of the icon and text.
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Returns the horizontal position of the text relative to the icon.
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Returns the default icon.
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Returns the amount of space between the text and the icon
displayed in this button.
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Returns an array of all the
ItemListener s added
to this AbstractButton with addItemListener(). | |||||||||||
This method is deprecated.
- Replaced by
getText
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Returns the margin between the button's border and
the label.
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Returns the keyboard mnemonic from the the current model.
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Returns the model that this button represents.
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Gets the amount of time (in milliseconds) required between
mouse press events for the button to generate the corresponding
action events.
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Returns the pressed icon for the button.
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Returns the rollover icon for the button.
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Returns the rollover selection icon for the button.
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Returns the selected icon for the button.
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Returns an array (length 1) containing the label or
null if the button is not selected. | |||||||||||
Returns the button's text.
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Returns the L&F object that renders this component.
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Returns the vertical alignment of the text and icon.
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Returns the vertical position of the text relative to the icon.
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This is overridden to return false if the current
Icon 's
Image is not equal to the
passed in Image img . | |||||||||||
Gets the
borderPainted property. | |||||||||||
Gets the
contentAreaFilled property. | |||||||||||
Gets the
paintFocus property. | |||||||||||
Gets the
rolloverEnabled property. | |||||||||||
Returns the state of the button.
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Removes an
ActionListener from the button. | |||||||||||
Removes a ChangeListener from the button.
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Removes an
ItemListener from the button. | |||||||||||
Notifies this component that it no longer has a parent component.
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Sets the
Action . | |||||||||||
Sets the action command for this button.
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Sets the
borderPainted property. | |||||||||||
Sets the
contentAreaFilled property. | |||||||||||
Sets the disabled icon for the button.
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Sets the disabled selection icon for the button.
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Provides a hint to the look and feel as to which character in the
text should be decorated to represent the mnemonic.
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Enables (or disables) the button.
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Sets the
paintFocus property, which must
be true for the focus state to be painted. | |||||||||||
Sets the
hideActionText property, which determines
whether the button displays text from the Action . | |||||||||||
Sets the horizontal alignment of the icon and text.
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Sets the horizontal position of the text relative to the icon.
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Sets the button's default icon.
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If both the icon and text properties are set, this property
defines the space between them.
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This method is deprecated.
- Replaced by
setText(text) | |||||||||||
Sets the layout manager for this container, refer to
setLayout(LayoutManager)
for a complete description of this method. | |||||||||||
Sets space for margin between the button's border and
the label.
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This method is now obsolete, please use
setMnemonic(int)
to set the mnemonic for a button. | |||||||||||
Sets the keyboard mnemonic on the current model.
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Sets the model that this button represents.
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Sets the amount of time (in milliseconds) required between
mouse press events for the button to generate the corresponding
action events.
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Sets the pressed icon for the button.
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Sets the
rolloverEnabled property, which
must be true for rollover effects to occur. | |||||||||||
Sets the rollover icon for the button.
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Sets the rollover selected icon for the button.
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Sets the state of the button.
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Sets the selected icon for the button.
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Sets the button's text.
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Sets the L&F object that renders this component.
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Sets the vertical alignment of the icon and text.
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Sets the vertical position of the text relative to the icon.
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Resets the UI property to a value from the current look
and feel.
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Updates the button's state in response to property changes in the
associated action.
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Adds the specified component to this container at the specified
index, refer to
addImpl(Component, Object, int)
for a complete description of this method. | |||||||||||
Verify that the
key argument is a legal value for the
horizontalAlignment and horizontalTextPosition
properties. | |||||||||||
Verify that the
key argument is a legal value for the
vertical properties. | |||||||||||
Sets the properties on this button to match those in the specified
Action . | |||||||||||
Creates and returns a
PropertyChangeListener that is
responsible for listening for changes from the specified
Action and updating the appropriate properties. | |||||||||||
Subclasses that want to handle
ChangeEvents differently
can override this to return another ChangeListener
implementation. | |||||||||||
Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for
notification on this event type.
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Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for
notification on this event type.
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Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for
notification on this event type.
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Paint the button's border if
BorderPainted
property is true and the button has a border. | |||||||||||
Returns a string representation of this
AbstractButton . |
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Identifies a change to having the border drawn, or having it not drawn.
Identifies a change to having the button paint the content area.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been disabled.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been disabled and selected.
Identifies a change to having the border highlighted when focused, or not.
Identifies a change in the button's horizontal alignment.
Identifies a change in the button's horizontal text position.
Identifies a change to the icon that represents the button.
Identifies a change in the button's margins.
Identifies a change to the button's mnemonic.
Identifies a change in the button model.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been pressed.
Identifies a change from rollover enabled to disabled or back to enabled.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the cursor is over the button.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the cursor is over the button and it has been selected.
Identifies a change to the icon used when the button has been selected.
Identifies a change in the button's text.
Identifies a change in the button's vertical alignment.
Identifies a change in the button's vertical text position.
Only one ChangeEvent
is needed per button
instance since the
event's only state is the source property. The source of events
generated is always "this".
Adds an ActionListener
to the button.
l | the ActionListener to be added
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Adds a ChangeListener
to the button.
l | the listener to be added |
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Adds an ItemListener
to the checkbox
.
l | the ItemListener to be added
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Programmatically perform a "click". This does the same thing as if the user had pressed and released the button.
Programmatically perform a "click". This does the same
thing as if the user had pressed and released the button.
The button stays visually "pressed" for pressTime
milliseconds.
pressTime | the time to "hold down" the button, in milliseconds |
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Returns the currently set Action
for this
ActionEvent
source, or null
if no Action
is set.
Action
for this ActionEvent
source, or null
Returns the action command for this button.
Returns an array of all the ActionListener
s added
to this AbstractButton with addActionListener().
ActionListener
s added or an empty
array if no listeners have been addedReturns an array of all the ChangeListener
s added
to this AbstractButton with addChangeListener().
ChangeListener
s added or an empty
array if no listeners have been addedReturns the icon used by the button when it's disabled. If no disabled icon has been set this will forward the call to the look and feel to construct an appropriate disabled Icon.
Some look and feels might not render the disabled Icon, in which case they will ignore this.
disabledIcon
propertyReturns the icon used by the button when it's disabled and selected.
If no disabled selection icon has been set, this will forward
the call to the LookAndFeel to construct an appropriate disabled
Icon from the selection icon if it has been set and to
getDisabledIcon()
otherwise.
Some look and feels might not render the disabled selected Icon, in which case they will ignore this.
disabledSelectedIcon
propertyReturns the character, as an index, that the look and feel should provide decoration for as representing the mnemonic character.
Returns the value of the hideActionText
property, which
determines whether the button displays text from the
Action
. This is useful only if an Action
has been installed on the button.
true
if the button's text
property should not reflect that of the
Action
; the default is false
Returns the horizontal alignment of the icon and text.
AbstractButton
's default is SwingConstants.CENTER
,
but subclasses such as JCheckBox
may use a different default.
horizontalAlignment
property,
one of the following values:
SwingConstants.RIGHT
SwingConstants.LEFT
SwingConstants.CENTER
SwingConstants.LEADING
SwingConstants.TRAILING
Returns the horizontal position of the text relative to the icon.
horizontalTextPosition
property,
one of the following values:
SwingConstants.RIGHT
SwingConstants.LEFT
SwingConstants.CENTER
SwingConstants.LEADING
SwingConstants.TRAILING
(the default)
Returns the amount of space between the text and the icon displayed in this button.
Returns an array of all the ItemListener
s added
to this AbstractButton with addItemListener().
ItemListener
s added or an empty
array if no listeners have been added
This method is deprecated.
- Replaced by getText
Returns the label text.
String
containing the labelReturns the margin between the button's border and the label.
Insets
object specifying the margin
between the botton's border and the labelReturns the keyboard mnemonic from the the current model.
Returns the model that this button represents.
model
propertyGets the amount of time (in milliseconds) required between mouse press events for the button to generate the corresponding action events.
Returns the pressed icon for the button.
pressedIcon
propertyReturns the rollover icon for the button.
rolloverIcon
propertyReturns the rollover selection icon for the button.
rolloverSelectedIcon
propertyReturns the selected icon for the button.
selectedIcon
propertyReturns an array (length 1) containing the label or
null
if the button is not selected.
null
Returns the L&F object that renders this component.
Returns the vertical alignment of the text and icon.
verticalAlignment
property, one of the
following values:
SwingConstants.CENTER
(the default)
SwingConstants.TOP
SwingConstants.BOTTOM
Returns the vertical position of the text relative to the icon.
verticalTextPosition
property,
one of the following values:
SwingConstants.CENTER
(the default)
SwingConstants.TOP
SwingConstants.BOTTOM
This is overridden to return false if the current Icon
's
Image
is not equal to the
passed in Image
img
.
img | the Image to be compared |
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infoflags | flags used to repaint the button when the image is updated and which determine how much is to be painted |
x | the x coordinate |
y | the y coordinate |
w | the width |
h | the height |
false
if the infoflags indicate that the
image is completely loaded; true
otherwise.Gets the borderPainted
property.
borderPainted
propertyGets the contentAreaFilled
property.
contentAreaFilled
propertyGets the rolloverEnabled
property.
rolloverEnabled
propertyReturns the state of the button. True if the toggle button is selected, false if it's not.
Removes an ActionListener
from the button.
If the listener is the currently set Action
for the button, then the Action
is set to null
.
l | the listener to be removed |
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Removes a ChangeListener from the button.
l | the listener to be removed |
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Removes an ItemListener
from the button.
l | the ItemListener to be removed
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Notifies this component that it no longer has a parent component.
When this method is invoked, any KeyboardAction
s
set up in the the chain of parent components are removed.
Sets the Action
.
The new Action
replaces any previously set
Action
but does not affect ActionListeners
independently added with addActionListener
.
If the Action
is already a registered
ActionListener
for the button, it is not re-registered.
Setting the Action
results in immediately changing
all the properties described in
Swing Components Supporting Action
.
Subsequently, the button's properties are automatically updated
as the Action
's properties change.
This method uses three other methods to set
and help track the Action
's property values.
It uses the configurePropertiesFromAction
method
to immediately change the button's properties.
To track changes in the Action
's property values,
this method registers the PropertyChangeListener
returned by createActionPropertyChangeListener
. The
default PropertyChangeListener
invokes the
actionPropertyChanged
method when a property in the
Action
changes.
a | the Action for the AbstractButton ,
or null |
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Sets the action command for this button.
actionCommand | the action command for this button |
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Sets the borderPainted
property.
If true
and the button has a border,
the border is painted. The default value for the
borderPainted
property is true
.
b | if true and border property is not null ,
the border is painted |
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Sets the contentAreaFilled
property.
If true
the button will paint the content
area. If you wish to have a transparent button, such as
an icon only button, for example, then you should set
this to false
. Do not call setOpaque(false)
.
The default value for the the contentAreaFilled
property is true
.
This function may cause the component's opaque property to change.
The exact behavior of calling this function varies on a component-by-component and L&F-by-L&F basis.
b | if true, the content should be filled; if false the content area is not filled |
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Sets the disabled icon for the button.
disabledIcon | the icon used as the disabled image |
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Sets the disabled selection icon for the button.
disabledSelectedIcon | the icon used as the disabled selection image |
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Provides a hint to the look and feel as to which character in the text should be decorated to represent the mnemonic. Not all look and feels may support this. A value of -1 indicates either there is no mnemonic, the mnemonic character is not contained in the string, or the developer does not wish the mnemonic to be displayed.
The value of this is updated as the properties relating to the
mnemonic change (such as the mnemonic itself, the text...).
You should only ever have to call this if
you do not wish the default character to be underlined. For example, if
the text was 'Save As', with a mnemonic of 'a', and you wanted the 'A'
to be decorated, as 'Save As', you would have to invoke
setDisplayedMnemonicIndex(5)
after invoking
setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_A)
.
index | Index into the String to underline |
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IllegalArgumentException | will be thrown if index
is >= length of the text, or < -1 |
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Enables (or disables) the button.
b | true to enable the button, otherwise false |
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Sets the paintFocus
property, which must
be true
for the focus state to be painted.
The default value for the paintFocus
property
is true
.
Some look and feels might not paint focus state;
they will ignore this property.
b | if true , the focus state should be painted |
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Sets the hideActionText
property, which determines
whether the button displays text from the Action
.
This is useful only if an Action
has been
installed on the button.
hideActionText | true if the button's
text property should not reflect
that of the Action ; the default is
false |
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Sets the horizontal alignment of the icon and text.
AbstractButton
's default is SwingConstants.CENTER
,
but subclasses such as JCheckBox
may use a different default.
alignment | the alignment value, one of the following values:
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IllegalArgumentException | if the alignment is not one of the valid values |
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Sets the horizontal position of the text relative to the icon.
textPosition | one of the following values:
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IllegalArgumentException | if textPosition
is not one of the legal values listed above |
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Sets the button's default icon. This icon is also used as the "pressed" and "disabled" icon if there is no explicitly set pressed icon.
defaultIcon | the icon used as the default image |
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If both the icon and text properties are set, this property defines the space between them.
The default value of this property is 4 pixels.
This is a JavaBeans bound property.
This method is deprecated.
- Replaced by setText(text)
Sets the label text.
label | a String containing the text |
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Sets the layout manager for this container, refer to
setLayout(LayoutManager)
for a complete description of this method.
mgr | the specified layout manager |
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Sets space for margin between the button's border and
the label. Setting to null
will cause the button to
use the default margin. The button's default Border
object will use this value to create the proper margin.
However, if a non-default border is set on the button,
it is that Border
object's responsibility to create the
appropriate margin space (else this property will
effectively be ignored).
m | the space between the border and the label |
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This method is now obsolete, please use setMnemonic(int)
to set the mnemonic for a button. This method is only designed
to handle character values which fall between 'a' and 'z' or
'A' and 'Z'.
mnemonic | a char specifying the mnemonic value |
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Sets the keyboard mnemonic on the current model. The mnemonic is the key which when combined with the look and feel's mouseless modifier (usually Alt) will activate this button if focus is contained somewhere within this button's ancestor window.
A mnemonic must correspond to a single key on the keyboard
and should be specified using one of the VK_XXX
keycodes defined in java.awt.event.KeyEvent
.
Mnemonics are case-insensitive, therefore a key event
with the corresponding keycode would cause the button to be
activated whether or not the Shift modifier was pressed.
If the character defined by the mnemonic is found within the button's label string, the first occurrence of it will be underlined to indicate the mnemonic to the user.
mnemonic | the key code which represents the mnemonic |
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Sets the model that this button represents.
newModel | the new ButtonModel |
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Sets the amount of time (in milliseconds) required between mouse press events for the button to generate the corresponding action events. After the initial mouse press occurs (and action event generated) any subsequent mouse press events which occur on intervals less than the threshhold will be ignored and no corresponding action event generated. By default the threshhold is 0, which means that for each mouse press, an action event will be fired, no matter how quickly the mouse clicks occur. In buttons where this behavior is not desirable (for example, the "OK" button in a dialog), this threshhold should be set to an appropriate positive value.
threshhold | the amount of time required between mouse press events to generate corresponding action events |
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IllegalArgumentException | if threshhold < 0 |
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Sets the pressed icon for the button.
pressedIcon | the icon used as the "pressed" image |
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Sets the rolloverEnabled
property, which
must be true
for rollover effects to occur.
The default value for the rolloverEnabled
property is false
.
Some look and feels might not implement rollover effects;
they will ignore this property.
b | if true , rollover effects should be painted |
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Sets the rollover icon for the button.
rolloverIcon | the icon used as the "rollover" image |
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Sets the rollover selected icon for the button.
rolloverSelectedIcon | the icon used as the "selected rollover" image |
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Sets the state of the button. Note that this method does not
trigger an actionEvent
.
Call doClick
to perform a programatic action change.
b | true if the button is selected, otherwise false |
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Sets the selected icon for the button.
selectedIcon | the icon used as the "selected" image |
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Sets the L&F object that renders this component.
ui | the ButtonUI L&F object |
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Sets the vertical alignment of the icon and text.
alignment | one of the following values:
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IllegalArgumentException | if the alignment is not one of the legal values listed above |
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Sets the vertical position of the text relative to the icon.
textPosition | one of the following values:
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Resets the UI property to a value from the current look
and feel. Subtypes of AbstractButton
should override this to update the UI. For
example, JButton
might do the following:
setUI((ButtonUI)UIManager.getUI( "ButtonUI", "javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonUI", this));
Updates the button's state in response to property changes in the
associated action. This method is invoked from the
PropertyChangeListener
returned from
createActionPropertyChangeListener
. Subclasses do not normally
need to invoke this. Subclasses that support additional Action
properties should override this and
configurePropertiesFromAction
.
Refer to the table at
Swing Components Supporting Action
for a list of
the properties this method sets.
action | the Action associated with this button |
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propertyName | the name of the property that changed |
Adds the specified component to this container at the specified
index, refer to
addImpl(Component, Object, int)
for a complete description of this method.
comp | the component to be added |
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constraints | an object expressing layout constraints for this component |
index | the position in the container's list at which to
insert the component, where -1
means append to the end |
IllegalArgumentException | if index is invalid |
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IllegalArgumentException | if adding the container's parent to itself |
IllegalArgumentException | if adding a window to a container |
Verify that the key
argument is a legal value for the
horizontalAlignment
and horizontalTextPosition
properties. Valid values are:
SwingConstants.RIGHT
SwingConstants.LEFT
SwingConstants.CENTER
SwingConstants.LEADING
SwingConstants.TRAILING
key | the property value to check |
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exception | the message to use in the
IllegalArgumentException that is thrown for an invalid
value |
IllegalArgumentException | if key is not one of the legal values listed above |
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Verify that the key
argument is a legal value for the
vertical properties. Valid values are:
SwingConstants.CENTER
SwingConstants.TOP
SwingConstants.BOTTOM
key | the property value to check |
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exception | the message to use in the
IllegalArgumentException that is thrown for an invalid
value |
IllegalArgumentException | if key is not one of the legal values listed above |
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Sets the properties on this button to match those in the specified
Action
. Refer to
Swing Components Supporting Action
for more
details as to which properties this sets.
a | the Action from which to get the properties,
or null |
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Creates and returns a PropertyChangeListener
that is
responsible for listening for changes from the specified
Action
and updating the appropriate properties.
Warning: If you subclass this do not create an anonymous
inner class. If you do the lifetime of the button will be tied to
that of the Action
.
a | the button's action |
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Subclasses that want to handle ChangeEvents
differently
can override this to return another ChangeListener
implementation.
ChangeListener
Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for
notification on this event type. The event instance
is lazily created using the event
parameter.
event | the ActionEvent object |
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Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for
notification on this event type. The event instance
is lazily created using the event
parameter.
event | the ItemEvent object |
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Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type. The event instance is lazily created.
Paint the button's border if BorderPainted
property is true and the button has a border.
g | the Graphics context in which to paint |
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Returns a string representation of this AbstractButton
.
This method
is intended to be used only for debugging purposes, and the
content and format of the returned string may vary between
implementations. The returned string may be empty but may not
be null
.
Overriding paramString
to provide information about the
specific new aspects of the JFC components.
AbstractButton